Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications

Chapter 15

Bioinformatics

OUTLINE

Preamble

What Is Bioinformatics?

Data Analysis Methods in Bioinformatics

Web Services in Bioinformatics

How Do We Apply Data Mining Methods to Bioinformatics?

Postscript

Preamble

This chapter is designed to give you a very brief exposure to the burgeoning field of bioinformatics. We will not present a comprehensive exposure to how data mining is applied in bioinformatics; instead, we will present a simple outline of major operations in bioinformatics and a short discussion of the direction in which the field is moving in the future.

Bioinformatics is the application of information technology to the field of molecular biology. Bioinformatics entails the creation and advancement of databases, algorithms, computational ...